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In the discussion thread: Welcome to the global market. American workers NEED NOT APPLY. Thank you, free traders. [View all]

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Sun Apr 22, 2012, 09:47 PM

Zalatix (8,994 posts)

30. Really? With a trade deficit of $40 billion per month it's quite obvious that

you don't know what you're talking about.

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Welcome to the global market. American workers NEED NOT APPLY. Thank you, free traders. [View all]	Zalatix	Apr 2012	OP
Our anger needs to be directed at the laws that enable these companies to	gateley	Apr 2012	#1
Yeah but if we direct our anger at these laws, we're called racists, John Birchers and Xenophobes.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#2
By whom?	gateley	Apr 2012	#4
This isn't the only example.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#7
Well, fuck 'em. It's just the better thing to do, economically and morally,	gateley	Apr 2012	#9
Alternatively, if capital faces few or no barriers to movement across international	coalition_unwilling	Apr 2012	#8
We Can Eliminate The Minimum Wage	TheMastersNemesis	Apr 2012	#11
Tax them when they go overseas. Take away any tax breaks they have right now.	sabrina 1	Apr 2012	#43
Sounds simple and it COULD be that simple, but just try getting that	gateley	Apr 2012	#81
Apple is an international company.	banned from Kos	Apr 2012	#3
Good point. And that raises a question (in my mind, anyway) --	gateley	Apr 2012	#5
BMW has two plants in China. Honda has four. nt	hack89	Apr 2012	#20
They sell their stuff here. They should build it here.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#6
So should/could we sell what we manufacture in other countries to those countries,	gateley	Apr 2012	#10
And Apple sell their stuff outside the US too	muriel_volestrangler	Apr 2012	#12
Actually there are another 700,000 workers that work for Apple through contractors	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#14
You know why the US trade deficit is as large as it is?	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#24
I know if it wasn't funny enough	Sea-Dog	Apr 2012	#26
The right-wing US Chamber of Commerce loves people like you.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#35
LOL calm down love	Sea-Dog	Apr 2012	#41
Smile! Because the US Chamber of Commerce still loves you!	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#45
BZZZZZZZZZZZT. Oil accounts for only HALF of the trade deficit.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#31
I said that, clearly you can't read	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#33
Clearly you are the one who cannot read. Oil is NOT over HALF our deficit. It is LESS than half.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#34
No, you're the one who evidently can't read.	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#39
LOL you don't read articles, do you? Learn to read before you start attacking me.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#42
Again:	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#46
Again:	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#48
I'm not "selling" anything	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#56
Correction: you're doing a poor job of selling.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#57
Look around me?	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#58
So what if they're headquarted in Cupertino? They hire 750,000 people outside the US	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#60
They sell more outside the US than in it	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#61
Then we need tariffs to force them to hire American workers to produce goods they sell here.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#62
Why does America get to be a special case?	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#67
Tariffs mean that they'll be forced to hire Americans to produce the iPads they sell HERE.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#68
Well no, actually	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#69
More US Chamber of Commerce propaganda, eh?	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#70
How will a tariff close off access to this market?	Recursion	Apr 2012	#78
High-enough tariffs would make it more profitable for Apple to produce the goods here.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#88
For the record, they do	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#59
Thumbs up! We need more of that.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#63
Think of WHERE they are placed though	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#64
There is that, too.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#65
You want to close borders	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#66
Tariffs can work. So can inflating away the national debt.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#71
Tariffs don't work. Just ask FDR. But I do like your idea of global unions and workers' party. n/t	pampango	Apr 2012	#80
Intelligent tariffs work	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#85
Yes indeed, BLIND use of tariffs DO NOT WORK. Free Traders think we just want a blanket tariff war.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#87
In macro economics tariffs have a limited use	nadinbrzezinski	Apr 2012	#83
Banned From Kos Is Full Of It	TheMastersNemesis	Apr 2012	#15
BMW employs people in the cheap labor, right to work South as a way to bust its Unions	Romulox	Apr 2012	#16
Right on.	Brickbat	Apr 2012	#19
Woah. Did not think of it that way.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#36
good news	Sea-Dog	Apr 2012	#13
LOL. What a refreshing P.O.V. you introduce to DU!	Romulox	Apr 2012	#17
Sure it's good news	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#25
Remember last week when you were pretending not to be a cheap labor corporatist?	Romulox	Apr 2012	#27
Europe has "cheap labour"? Since when?	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#29
You mean you're the only person here who doesn't know this?	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#37
If Irish labour is cheap it's because they have close to 15% unemployment	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#40
You're wrong again about corporate taxes.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#44
The top-line corporate tax rate in the US is 35%.	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#47
Seriously, you cannot read. The effective tax rate is far lower than 35%.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#49
Sure, I can read them	Spider Jerusalem	Apr 2012	#51
The effective tax rate is an irrelevancy?!!! Hahahahahahahaha!!! Seriously?!	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#54
LOL. What a silly set of posts. nt	Romulox	Apr 2012	#75
Americans being excluded from the global labor market is good news?	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#21
boo hoo	Sea-Dog	Apr 2012	#22
Really? With a trade deficit of $40 billion per month it's quite obvious that	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#30
He's not for real. It's too over-the-top. nt	Romulox	Apr 2012	#23
Make it so these products cannot be sold in the US without a tariff.	mmonk	Apr 2012	#18
Farmers are too politically important for that	Recursion	Apr 2012	#73
Don't most multinationals emply people in many different countries?	Nye Bevan	Apr 2012	#28
They rarely hire in America, though. Look at our trade deficit. That says it all.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#32
They hired 19,500 in the past 3 years or so	muriel_volestrangler	Apr 2012	#82
Yes, that's why they're a multinational company.	tammywammy	Apr 2012	#38
Multinational companies tend to lay off American workers and hire abroad.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#50
Where in my post did I even use the word "discrimination"?	tammywammy	Apr 2012	#52
My point is that free traders would never even USE the word 'discrimination'	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#55
"Well, that's the global market"	TheFarseer	Apr 2012	#53
Plenty of laws are slanted in our favor. Agriculture and intellectual property, for instance	Recursion	Apr 2012	#74
OK, what law change would you seek to keep this from happening?	Recursion	Apr 2012	#72
LOL. Now we can't control trade. It just IS! nt	Romulox	Apr 2012	#76
Independent monetary policy, a stable currency, control of capital flow. Pick any 2.	Recursion	Apr 2012	#77
We have a fiat currency (most recently having printed TRILLIONS to give to the banks.)	Romulox	Apr 2012	#79
Small Business Exports	WinniSkipper	Apr 2012	#84
I had a small business for 30 years before retiring.	Elwood P Dowd	Apr 2012	#86
It is impossible to increase our exports. We can force jobs back here, though.	Zalatix	Apr 2012	#89

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